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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex mesochorea
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=37: 246. 1910
|year=1910
}}
|common_names=Carex de l’arrière-pays
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex mediterranea
|authority=Mackenzie
|publication_title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication_place=33: 441. 1906,
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex cephalophora var. mesochorea
|authority=(Mackenzie) Gleason
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phaestoglochin;Carex mesochorea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Carex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Carex sect. Phaestoglochin]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex mesochorea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 287, 293
|treatment_page=page 295
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>without conspicuous rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> 15–100 cm, 1.5–3 mm wide basally, 0.9–1.1 mm wide distally. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths tight, green, fronts hyaline, yellow-brown and thickened at mouth; ligules to 3 mm, wider than long; blades 2.5–4 mm at widest. <b>Inflorescences</b> forming dense heads, with 4–8 spikes, 1–1.5 times as long as wide, 1–2 cm × 9–14 mm; proximal bracts not more than 2 cm; spikes with 8–20 ascending to spreading perigynia. <b>Pistillate</b> scales brownish to green-hyaline with green, 3-veined center, ovate, 2.3–3.1 × 1.2–2 mm, narrower than and as long as perigynia, apex cuspidate to short-awned. <b>Anthers</b> 1.1–1.7 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> pale green to pale brown, weakly veined or veinless abaxially, 3–4.1 × (1.7–)2–2.6 mm, margins serrulate distally; beak 0.8–1 mm, apical teeth 0.2–0.3 mm. <b>Achenes</b> suborbiculate, 1.5–1.7 × 1.3–1.5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry grasslands, roadsides, railroads
|elevation=100–300 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Calif.;Conn.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex mesochorea</i> is naturalized in California and is probably not native at the northern and eastern limits of its range.</p>
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name=Carex mesochorea
|author=
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex cephalophora var. mesochorea
|basionyms=Carex mediterranea
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry grasslands, roadsides, railroads
|elevation=100–300 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Calif.;Conn.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1910
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
|species=Carex mesochorea
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